Worries over water as a giant data center moves into the New Mexico desert

from Weekend Edition Sunday · host John Burnett

A county in the New Mexico borderlands desperate for economic development has OK'd one of the country's biggest data centers, with its own gas-fired electricity plant. There's now some buyer's remorse.

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